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Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by [Margaret Atwood]

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In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt?

Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt - before it is too late.

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'A fascinating, freewheeling examination of ideas of debt, balance and revenge in history, society and literature - Atwood has again struck upon our most current anxieties' The Times 'A stimulating, learned, and stylish read from an eminent author writing from a heartfelt perspective ... very provocative' Conrad Black 'Could hardly be more timely ... as clear a summary of the situation as I have read' Financial Times 'Lively and exceedingly timely ... At a time when so many of us are mired in debts of the financial variety it is worth remembering that it is the other, non-financial debts that we owe - to the planet, and to each other - that may prove most important' Observer --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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An intelligent, wide-ranging book that examines the metaphor of debt and the role it takes in our lives. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B008NA17CY
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks; 1st edition (1 August 2012)
Language : English
File size : 517 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 240 pages

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Economic piffle

Reviewed in Australia on 15 November 2014

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Written for the religious mutters. Belongs in the opinion columns and not where we expect an economist as the title infers.

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it reminds us that economics should not be about boring numbers and statistics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2017

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This is an usual but important book. While the earlier chapters are interesting, it is the final chapter that has most resonance. Written but a non-economist, it reminds us that economics should not be about boring numbers and statistics, but the impact of our actions on the wider society and environment. Oour politicians could read and learn from this.

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Frankie Royd

What a wonderful book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2019

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This was clever and witty and a great exposee of debt in all its forms, financial, moral and last, but not least, our debt to Mother Earth. Wonderful!

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brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2019

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This book is about the moral, environmental and financial repercussions of debt.It tells the story of debt from religious, political and literary stances. I highly recommend it.

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Great value

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 July 2018

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This 2nd-hand book was in better condition than I expected, from the description. Great value

Mrs H Buxton

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2015

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good but rather hard going

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